Chinese SKS Type 56 ?

[winston94]

i picked this SKS up... has 5 digist SN no other markings... all matching including stock...

what is it? what is the stock made out of?

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thanks allot for any info...


Mike

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[Flying10uk]

Are you able to provide some more and better/closer pictures, please?

[winston94]

here you go.. i will try to take apart an clean an take better pics...


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[Sentryduty]

This is the same rifle from this thread a presume?

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=58392&page=1

[winston94]

yes...i ended up purchasing it off of GB... i think it what they call a ghost gun... but whats interesting is that stock... it matches the rifle but seems to be Albanian maybe...

[Sentryduty]

ghost gun

That's a new one to me, sounds like a way to upscale an early Jianshe Arsenal SKS 56-Carbine for sale. If it's a five digit serial that should be a 1956 dated rifle, According to yooper's page an Albanian rifle should have a dash (123456-XX) year of production suffix, and the Albanian forestock is a fair bit longer than any of the others.

[winston94]

yeah... thats what throwing me... that stock... it dont seem to fit the rifle like the other i have ... very cool rifle anyway...

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ill strip it an take better pics this weekend..

[Sentryduty]

it dont seem to fit the rifle like the other i have

How so? From the photos at least, it seems to fit adequately from where I am sitting. Anything in particular out of place?

[winston94]

i will take some better pics tonight ... but there at the end of stock an those metal caps... there like a gap its not fitted tight..

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[Sentryduty]

but there at the end of stock an those metal caps... there like a gap its not fitted tight..

The stock ferrules? They look pretty normal to me, and SKS is not a precision fitted gun and they do vary. Keep in mind modern production versions of these guns from the same factory retailed in Canada for about $130 not too long ago. Given the rule of markups, that is less than $50 USD out the factory door.